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OPEN COUNCIL. 427
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MADAM, liope dissent As you you from wil...
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Madam, number Having of read the Journal...
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Open Council. 427
OPEN _COUNCIL . 427
Madam, Liope Dissent As You You From Wil...
MADAM , liope As you you will are not admit responsible the following for the letter opinions writers , althoug expressed in h the its last object in O number pen is to Council express of , I
dissent Journal from . In Passing the view Events taken b the y one following of the observation is made in reference your to the late Marchmont case : * The law itself should be remodelled of , giving alone , as "
in Prussiadivorce upon the ground of incompatibility ( temper ) . irritability One cannot , of be their surprised partners that for women life , should who be reflected often inclined suffer sufficientl to so adopt severel this y from op the inion the in ,
evitable yet If wife those divorces . consequences would who on do have this so ground 1 nothing of have such hardl were an to arrangement do y permitted I but think to indul , a . man his who ill- had humour grown y on and tired make of
-Ms temper and himself would is dis too agreeable then common find till himself a fault the to free poor be , harshl creature without y jud a was slur ged ge driven , on ) and his to at character liberty sue for to a , ( divorce for select bad a ,
second resent wife a man from in among order to his obtain younger legal and release more from blooming his marriage acquaintances vow , . must At f ehave in such disgraceful as to render it difficult if not impossible
a manner station for him of to find life a consequentl second wife y the among temptation his former to misconduct acquaintances is far in less his now owq .
than I fear it therefore would be , if that the the proposed change alteration would greatl in the y law increase were carried domestic into discord effect . ,
and am , convinced , that the plan will never find favor in the eyes of middleaged comfortable One ladies great conscious position object that in that marri her their beauty age charms is to won are secure for fading her to the in . her woman youth in , but her were age and _? the the
writer wife ' s ' position s proposal at would carried moment never into be to effect secure whom this , as her a obj younger husband ect would and could be prettier easil defeated y force rival , her might to a spring any
damag resi compatibility gn ing her up his place of character temper by exercising , " as and the _perhaps a world judicious would blame ill-temp hear the wife er of , nothing and as much that but without as the
in-, husband A judicial . separation on this ground can and now to all be obtained her ri , which restores femme
the sole wife " excepting to the use that of of her marry own ing fortune again , , of which it equall ghts y as deprive a " s hex * husband . and this I believe to "be the most advantageous arrangement for
that , can be madeas it is inconvenient to a man to be deprived the of women viol his ent fear wife temper of this and : but inconvenience her if fortune a , divorce without must could very prove be being obtained a check permitted for on the this to free seek cause indul another , ilk genc -temper , and e of
would positively be rewarded . I amMadam , Yours faithfull , y ,
A Constant Reajdeb _,
Madam, Number Having Of Read The Journal...
Madam , Having read the paper by occurred Isa Craig to and that a letter few by remarks " A . B . " mig in ht the be last of
number which service to of the wife your class and Journal I " have maid , it begun -servants to ; put " describing me in practice a to , your and have readers great a scheme hopes my
will Most prove of successful _yoxir readers . must be aware how the majority of
" maids-of time -all- in work , " and scandal servant and -girls spending in general very their , prone are to wasting the nmch
fripery valuable of dress , depraved talking penny illustrated papers , or a - money t ( hundre upon ' d-songs-for p -
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1859, page 427, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021859/page/67/
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